Deck the Halls with Reds and Whites

Our guest wine columnist, Natalie
Maclean, shares her top wine picks to make your holidays festive:

2009 Hillebrand Winery Sauvignon Blanc Trius, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Ontario: Terrific mouth-watering flavours of ripe green melon
and grapefruit. Ultra-refreshing and perfect for salads, seafood and
sparkling conversation on New Years. Price: $14.05 Score:87/100.

2009 Cono Sur Viognier, Chile: Everythings coming up daisies
with the Cono Sur Viognier, a lovely wine with notes of field flowers,
peach and dried apricot. Its perfect for holiday parties, especially
those involving cheese.Price: $9.95 Score:87/100.

2009 Louis Bernard Syrah Blend, Cotes Du Rhone, France: A solid
performer, year after year. This robust red offers tasty notes of dark
red fruit, cedar and some smoke. Perfect for hearty meat meals. Price:
$12.15 Score:87/100.

2006 Rocca Delle Macìe Chianti Riserva, Tuscany, Italy: A
lovely, classic chianti that celebrates all thats best about Tuscan
living and the joys of pasta and fresh tomato sauce. Dark berries and
smoke with mouth-watering acidity and full-bodied weight. Great gift
wine.Price: $15.95 Score:91/100.

2008 Lenz Moser Prestige Trockenbeerenauslese, Austria:
Sublime! Gorgeous dessert wine thats complex and endless. Apricot and
peach with that distinctive note that botrytis adds. This one will make
sugarplums dance in your head; its perfect with Christmas fruitcake.
$19.95 Score:96/100. Natalie MacLean

For more on these wines as well as holiday wine picks and pairings, visitwww.nataliemaclean.com